Developer finds AI-assisted auto-merge gate passed all checks without running any code

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A developer using Claude Code to commit directly to repositories discovered that their automated verify gate was approving pull requests without executing a single check. The gate script fell back to an empty default configuration for three of four repos, causing it to exit with a success code and trigger automatic merges. Auditing revealed further issues in the one nominally gated repo, including a tsconfig that excluded 51 core files from typechecking and a test glob pattern that missed all .tsx test files. The root structural flaw was that an empty or missing gate configuration was treated as a passing result rather than an error. The developer has since recommended that empty gate steps should exit non-zero, missing config keys should break the build, and teams using AI agents to commit code should deliberately break a file to verify their safety gates actually fail.

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